is 24 fps in q3 ok with a athlon 600 on an msi board?

[waxling]

basically @ 1024x768 32bpp for all settings, lightmap, 3/4 texture detail, everything else max, getting 24 fps in timedemo demo001 and demo002 using the latest win98 betadriver Windows 9x - 5.50.01 (4.3MB).
+ installed latest agp miniport + busdrivers.
It just doesn't seem fast enough.

as for irqs,

the machines in question are all identical, (x4 ) and all have the g400 on irq 11, sharing with a soundblaster 128. I've only had the machines for 4 hours and I have until monday afternoon to give the boss justification for getting the g400 (vanilla single head 16mb, hate to say it but I'm getting better frame rates on a bh6 cel400 with a tnt32mb.

I'll post on monday if full irq's are needed, But I'm sure no other conflicts are mentioned.

[Maggi]

I guess it's that sharing with our soundblaster ...

Your score should be way higher ... look at mine:

Celeron 333A @ 500MHz
Asus P2B-S @ 100MHz FSB
2x 128MB SDRAM
Matrox G400 32MB DH @ 150.8/201MHz core/mem
PowerDesk 5.50.010 (public beta)
Win98 SE - DX7a

Quake 3 Arena - Point Release 1.16h

Game Settings:
GL Extensions On
Lighting: Lightmap
Geometric Detail: High
Texture Detail: Max
Texture Quality: 32 bit
Texture Filter: Bilinear
High Quality Sky: On


Demo Demo001:

640x480 - 16 / 32 bpp
TurboGL - 47.8 / 47.3
FullICD - 47.6 / 47.1

800x600 - 16 / 32 bpp
TurboGL - 46.8 / 45.1
FullICD - 45.6 / 42.2

1024x768 - 16/32 bpp
TurboGL - 37.1 / 31.5
FullICD - 36.3 / 30.9

1280x1024 - 16/32 bpp
TurboGL - 24.0 / 19.0
FullICD - 23.7 / 18.8

1600x1200 - 16/32 bpp
TurboGL - 16.5 / 12.0
FullICD - 16.5 / 11.8

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Cheers,
Maggi

Despite my nickname causing confusion, I am not female ...

[Maggi]

also make sure to have VSync disabled !!!

[waxling]

ta, thanks for the info....


Since got home and checked it out on my cel300a @450 and noticed that the fps is exactly the same as mine is in win2000 using the latest beta drivers (not the non beta release from today) definately a problem, from what ive seen it should be at least twice what it is, keep yas posted on the developments....

[Kenny[SP]]

hey waxling, one thing when using q3 it reports athlon as PII/MMX and not Athlon, this is the first thing i noticed. Another thing most people here overclock their g400s until i overclocked mine (186mem/140 core)with powerstrip (i don't use any cooling system) and then my scores went up (near 40+ fps in 1024 32 bit all to the max, billinear) !

voilà

[Fat Tone]

Hi Guys
I've just upgraded rom a k6-2-450@500 to an Athlon @750 woth my G400 32DH.
It sure seems like the G400 is the bottle- neck as my fps hardly changed at 1024*768*32 (~32). However, when i o/c'd to max levels I got much more of a boost than before. Now running at over 39fps. 800* was about 60 fps (compared to ~30 before), haven't tried 640* as I don't intend playing it.

Gotta get myself that decent g400 cooler now.

Cheers, Tony.

[G7]

Exactly how do you disable the VSync please?

[paulcs]

There are a couple of ways to disable Vsync.

You could download the PD5 registry hacks from MURC. Unzip them into their own directory and double-click on the appropriate hack. Don't forget to reboot. Here's the link:
http://www.murc.ws/Utils/PD5RegHacks.zip

You could download the Matrox Tweak Utility and check-off the appropriate box. Don't forget to reboot. Here's the link:
http://www.murc.ws/Driver/Win9x/PD5/...ak_utility.exe

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net